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No. 235,943. Paice nted Dec. 28,1880.-

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FBANQOIS M. O. FARRADESOHE, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

UMBRELLA AND SUN-SHADE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,943, dated December 28, 1880. Application filed August 7, 1880. (No model.) Patented in France June 14, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FaANgoIs MARIE GON- STANTIN FARRADESOHE, of Paris, France, have invented Improvements in Umbrellas and Sun-Shades and 1 do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed sheet of drawings, making a part of the same.

For the same invention Letters Patent of the Republic of France were granted me for fifteen years from June 14, 1880.

This invention relates to improvements in umbrellas and sun-shades; and it consists, first, in a construction of spring-joint uniting the ribs to the stretchers, whereby the stretchers and ribs are held snugly against the stick when the umbrella is closed.

The invention is illustrated, by way of eX- ample, in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the umbrella-frame in the open position. Fig. 2 shows a side view of the joint between the ribs and stretchers in the closed position. Fig. 3 is a front view of same; Fig. 4, an elevation, and Fig. 5 a horizontal section on line 1 2,,.Fig. 4, the relative positions of the stretcher and rib being such as they would occupy when the umbrella is half opened. Fig. 6 is a part sectional elevation showing the mode of jointing the stretchers to the runner; Fig. 7, an inside view of the same; Fig. 8, a cross-section of the upper part of the runner; Fig. 9, a plan of same, and Fig. 10 an elevation of a tube for retaining the stretohers in the groove of the runner.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

a a are the ribs, and b I) the stretchers. Each stretcher has a tubular part, 0, near the end, formed by bending the metal, in which are received two flat springs, (I, placed back to back and splayed outward at their ends. They are secured by a pin, 0, passing through them and through the ears of a clip, f, embracing the rib a. The splayed ends of the spring d are pressed together on entering between the earsf, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, but expand 011 emerging from the same, and thus tend to bring the stretchers parallel to the ribs and hold them snuglyagainst the stick, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The joint of the stretchers to the runner i is formed by a cross-pin, g, received in an internal groove in the runner-notch and retained therein by an inner tube, 70, having a shoulder, Z, at its 5 upper end abutting upon a shoulder, m, of the runner. The tube is split at the lower end, as at n, to make it fit spring-tight in the runner.

I claim- 1. In an umbrella or sun-shade, a springjoint for uniting the ribs and stretchers, the same consisting of the split tube 0, springs d d,pi|1 e, and clipf, substantially as shown and described.

2. The joint uniting the stretchers to the runner, the same consisting of split tube 70, having shoulder l, and of runner 1', having shoulder m, and of pin 9, substantially as shown and described.

FRANQOIS MARIE CONSTANTIN FARRADESGHE.

Witnesses:

RoB'r. M. HOOPER, J EAN BAPTISTE ROLLAND. 

